Texas Senate

Survey of 500 Likely Voters

June 25, 2008

1* How do you rate the way that Rick Perry is performing his role as Governor? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?

10% Excellent

27% Good

38% Fair

23% Poor

2% Not Sure

2* 2008 Senate Election

3* Favorables for Senate Candidates

4* Did law enforcement and child welfare agents do the right thing by raiding the FLDS church compound in El Dorado?

45% Yes

30% No

25% Not sure

5* Has deregulation of the state’s electricity providers been a success or failure?

24% Success

41% Failure

25% Somewhere in between

10% Not sure

6* Many Texas cities have taken steps to curb illegal immigration, like verifying citizenship for workers and apartment renters. Has this “get tough” approach made life in Texas better or worse?

47% Better

20% Worse

23% No impact

10% Not sure

7* Looking ahead to the 2010 Governor’s race, suppose you had a choice between Republican Rick Perry, Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, and a Democratic candidate. If that election were held today, for whom would you vote?

17% Rick Perry

38% Kay Bailey Hutchison

30% A Democratic candidate

15% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence